Category: Architecture

In this post, we explain how ultrafast delivery pioneer, Getir, unleashed the power of data democratization on a large scale through their data mesh architecture using Amazon Redshift. We start by introducing Getir and their vision—to seamlessly, securely, and efficiently share business data across different teams within the organization for BI, extract, transform, and load (ETL), and other use cases. We’ll then explore how Amazon Redshift data sharing powered the data mesh architecture that allowed Getir to achieve this transformative vision.

AWS customers often process petabytes of data using Amazon EMR on EKS. In enterprise environments with diverse workloads or varying operational requirements, customers frequently choose a multi-cluster setup due to the following advantages: Better resiliency and no single point of failure – If one cluster fails, other clusters can continue processing critical workloads, maintaining business […]

Account reconciliation is an important step to ensure the completeness and accuracy of financial statements. Specifically, companies must reconcile balance sheet accounts that could contain significant or material misstatements. Accountants go through each account in the general ledger of accounts and verify that the balance listed is complete and accurate. When discrepancies are found, accountants […]

Financial services customers are using data from different sources that originate at different frequencies, which includes real time, batch, and archived datasets. Additionally, they need streaming architectures to handle growing trade volumes, market volatility, and regulatory demands. The following are some of the key business use cases that highlight this need: Trade reporting – Since […]

In the dynamic world of cloud computing, ensuring the resilience and availability of critical applications is paramount. Disaster recovery (DR) is the process by which an organization anticipates and addresses technology-related disasters. For organizations implementing critical workload orchestration using Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA), it is crucial to have a DR plan […]

In this post, we discuss how AWS can help you successfully address the challenges of extracting insights from unstructured data. We discuss various design patterns and architectures for extracting and cataloging valuable insights from unstructured data using AWS. Additionally, we show how to use AWS AI/ML services for analyzing unstructured data.

Data governance is the process of ensuring the integrity, availability, usability, and security of an organization’s data. Due to the volume, velocity, and variety of data being ingested in data lakes, it can get challenging to develop and maintain policies and procedures to ensure data governance at scale for your data lake. In this post, we showcase how to use AWS Glue with AWS Glue Data Quality, sensitive data detection transforms, and AWS Lake Formation tag-based access control to automate data governance.

This is a guest blog post co-written with Corey Johnson from Huron. Having an accurate and up-to-date inventory of all technical assets helps an organization ensure it can keep track of all its resources with metadata information such as their assigned owners, last updated date, used by whom, how frequently, and more. It helps engineers, […]

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. This post was co-written by Mahesh Pasupuleti and Gaurav Shah from Poshmark. Poshmark is a leading social marketplace for new and secondhand styles for women, men, kids, […]

This post is co-authored with Girish Kumar Chidananda from redBus. redBus is one of the earliest adopters of AWS in India, and most of its services and applications are hosted on the AWS Cloud. AWS provided redBus the flexibility to scale their infrastructure rapidly while keeping costs extremely low. AWS has a comprehensive suite of services […]